Back to the point. My belief that children should not be indoctrinated into an ideology comes from my liberalism which, combined with my own nature, is extremely individualistic and freedom-orientated. It would be a travesty & a paradox to enforce this liberalism on my child.
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How would it work? Would I have her repeat after me, 'I will think for myself' every morning?
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But I gave her the options as neutrally as I could in the largest religious and political ideologies. She was Christian first because the school is but hadn't questioned it. When I showed her Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism & secular humanism, she wavered for months.
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She liked Hinduism best because of the notion of Karma and reincarnation which appealed to her sense of fairness and adventure but she decided she could not believe in it. Judaism was the one which has held her interest enough for her to study it on her own but Passover upset her
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I told her she was free to believe what she wanted, although I also taught her about critical thinking. I did not push her to tell me what she had settled on but when she filled in the info form for secondary school, she wrote 'atheist.'
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Politically, she tells me she is LibDem but I suspect this might be because I am. She's further left than me & also highly strategic and practical. I have a feeling that a mature & more knowledgeable version of her 13-year-old self would vote Labour right now.
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It’s fun to think about
@HPluckrose making the strongest case possible for, let’s say,#RolandBarthes’s view that language usage is intrinsically fascist and then fails to convince her child other views out there to take into consideration.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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This is what we're trying to do at home with our own child, fwiw--with varying degrees of success depending on the topic.
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Believing someone shouldn’t be indoctrinated into an ideology doesn’t mean you believe they shouldn’t be able to choose to follow that ideology.
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Yes, and as long as the child is free to draw the conclusion that indoctrination is better, they haven't been indoctrinated (they're just naturally stupid or evil).
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